Notes from the Resistance...
While the decision concerned Washington, D.C.’s ban on handguns, the majority opinion did provide some discussion of the nature of the “arms” protected by the Second Amendment, which potentially include edged weapons.Attorney David Wong examines an area of RKBA overlooked when we focus exclusively on guns.
From "TF":I recently finished reading "Unintended Consequences" by John Ross, and it really lit the fire of revolution (hypothetically, of course :) in my belly. I want to get others to read this, but was kind of surprised that the book was kind of hard to find, and thusly not read by a portion of the gun owner population. I've been trying to get people to read the book, but they're turned off by the size. While I was also turned off by the size, when I heard that the F troop tried to stop its publishing, and threatened sellers (documented) my interest was piqued. Once I started, I couldn't put it down and hundreds of pages flew by.
...I think much of the gunny population would benefit by a reminder of the incredibly important piece of literature some of them are missing.
Four days after more than a dozen heavily armed police officers raided her Elgin home, Betty Granger got the news she was waiting for early Thursday: The city would repair the damage—pronto.The Granger's are damned lucky the damage can be repaired. I couldn't help but focus on Betty's statement:
"I asked the officers why they did this, and they said they got a tip that there were guns in the house," said Betty Granger, 60. "I told them that if they had just asked us, if they had just knocked on the door and asked, I would have let them search the house."
Nevada lawmakers introduced a bill during Wednesday's session that, if passed, would allow teachers to pack heat. Senate Bill 286 would authorize teachers to carry concealed weapons on school grounds, during school hours.The "authorized journalist" just couldn't resist creating an emotional reflex, could he? "Pack heat." What is this, a Cagney movie? And if NBC declares the idea of being able to protect oneself and others a "throwback," then, by golly, it must be. After all, this is straight news, not an opinion piece.
Police Chief W. E. Traylor of Petersburg, Va., ordered daily target practice for his men after they fired 21 times at a restaurant burglar they were set for and failed to even score a scratch wound.
New Haven's narcotics unit will be shut down after its head and a detective were charged with theft in an FBI sting, and the probe likely will result in more arrests, the city's police chief said Wednesday...
“I think what you're seeing here today is just a sampling of what's to come,” Ortiz said outside U.S. District Court in Hartford. He did not elaborate, except to predict there would be fewer than 10 arrests.
Six weeks before his deadly rampage at Trolley Square mall, Sulejman Talovic proudly showed three young relatives the 12-gauge shotgun, .38-caliber revolver and black backpack of ammunition he had collected...
Faced with disbelief, Talovic offered "proof." He took the teens into his basement bedroom and opened a small closet.
On this day in 1776, British forces are forced to evacuate Boston following General George Washington's successful placement of fortifications and cannons on Dorchester Heights, which overlooks the city from the south.
Under the law, only journalists -- not the general public -- can obtain the information but they cannot copy it. The requests highlight the increasingly murky definition of journalists in the age of the Internet...So basically, under Ohio law, a free citizen who carries on the tradition of the early pamphleteers of the Republic is not an "authorized journalist," but a propagandist for, say Al-Jazeera or People's Weekly World (or something really subversive, like The Los Angeles Times) is...
Ohio law says a journalist is a person who works for a newspaper, magazine, radio or television station "or a similar medium."
A policeman who said he was shot by an unknown assailant actually shot himself with a gun he stole from the police department's property room, Dayton police Chief Julian Davis said Wednesday.
If the Supreme Court gets this case and clearly upholds gun ownership as a right, it should at least deflate the political battle by ruling that courts should use only the most limited scrutiny in challenging gun laws. Firearms ownership must be treated as much as a privilege as a right.
On this day in 1751, James Madison, drafter of the Constitution, recorder of the Constitutional Convention, author of the “Federalist Papers” and fourth president of the United States, is born on a plantation in Virginia.
The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit interpreted the Second Amendment as bestowing on individuals a right to have guns.No it did not either, Erwin. You've been spinning your subversive interpretation of the Second Amendment for more years than I can remember, but I'm not going to let you get away with a damned lie that anyone who can read can disprove.
The wording of the operative clause also indicates that the right to keep and bear arms was not created by government, but rather preserved by it...Hence, the Amendment acknowledges “the right...to keep and bear Arms,” a right that pre-existed the Constitution like “the freedom of speech.” Because the right to arms existed prior to the formation of the new government...the Second Amendment only guarantees that the right “shall not be infringed.”
In unrelated proceedings, Stilley was dismissed last week as the defense attorney for Hollis Wayne Fincher, a Washington County resident convicted in January of possessing illegal, unregistered weapons. According to a report in The Morning News, Fincher cited irreconcilable differences with the attorney and requested another defender for the sentencing phase of his trial.
Stilley, who was privately retained, said he was permitted to go to the federal courthouse in Fayetteville to be formally dismissed. Fincher awaits a court-appointed defender.
On the morning of March 15, 1783, General George Washington makes a surprise appearance at an assembly of army officers at Newburgh, New York, to calm the growing frustration and distrust they had been openly expressing towards Congress in the previous few weeks. Angry with Congress for failing to honor its promise to pay them and for its failure to settle accounts for repayment of food and clothing, officers began circulating an anonymous letter condemning Congress and calling for a revolt.
Two female Sacramento County sheriff's deputies have resigned over allegations that they had phone sex with jail inmates while on duty.Mmmmm....oh, yeah, baby, you're "The Only One" who makes me feel this way...
Extra police patrols were ordered Tuesday at the home of a newspaper editorial writer after a suspicious package was delivered there following a storm of criticism of a column he wrote about concealed weapons permits...Ol' Christian seems a mite jumpy. There's no indication the package was intended as a threat. Think he might be having second thoughts on endangering his countrymen to get some cheap attention? And "extra patrols"? Why waste police resources defending someone who obviously considers himself too...French to defend himself? Does he really expect another man to endanger himself doing what he will not?
Trejbal's column Sunday was accompanied by an online database that listed the names and addresses of more than 135,000 Virginians who are licensed to carry concealed weapons...
Sisson said police will make extra patrols around Trejbal's house "until we feel there's no threat."
China will tighten controls on Internet blogs and webcasts in a response to new technologies that have allowed cyber citizens to avoid government censorship efforts, state press reported Tuesday.Evil bastards always try to find a way to snuff out the embers of freedom, don't they?
